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Chris’ Number 4: The Grand Budapest Hotel

If there’s a filmmaker these days that I get nerdy about, it’s Wes Anderson. There’s SO MUCH going on in every shot, from the symmetries, to the background details, to the characters and their interaction. It doesn’t really matter what kind of film he’s made, I’m going to go and see it. Continue reading “Top 10 Favourite Nerdy Things #4”→

Myles’ Number 5: Discovering Game Grumps

If YouTube is over-saturated with any one type of content other than videos of people’s pets, it has got to be videos of people playing video games. Seeing as there was just SO MUCH of it, I thought there had to be someone out there doing something new and exciting with it. Continue reading “Top 10 Favourite Nerdy Things #5”→

I will begin this post with my usual disclaimer regarding my video gaming skills: I am not good at video games. I’m terrible at basic gaming skills like jumping or aiming and shooting or navigating (I get lost a LOT). But, I’m not too bad at puzzle-solving and button-mashing, which is probably why I love LEGO games. Continue reading “Top 10 Favourite Nerdy Things #6”→

Chris’ Number 7: 6 Month Long Star Trek: Attack Wing Tournament

In the early part of the year, I started playing Star Trek: Attack Wing. If you don’t know, it’s a miniatures game based in the Star Trek universe that uses the same rules as X-Wing: Miniatures Game. I haven’t put up a review of either game yet, but suffice it to say that it inspired me to seek out new tournaments and hobby locations and boldly go where I hadn’t gone before.